Arizona Local Government Employee Benefit Trust

Client Description

Three of Arizona’s smallest rural counties, each experiencing increasing financial pressure on their self-funded benefit plans, looked to ECA for a solution. Working with their senior management staff, ECA successfully assembled the Arizona Local Government Employee Benefit Trust (AZLGEBT) effective July 01, 1994 comprised of Graham, Greenlee and Santa Cruz counties. Almost two decades later, growing to six counties with the addition of La Paz, Apache and Gila counties, AZLGEBT has become ECA’s most established self-funded pool. AZLGEBT touts over $10 million in surplus and an average of less than 7% annual medical premium increases.